Rudolf Hellgrewe
Rudolf Hellgrewe (6 October 1860 – 1935) was a German landscape painter and illustrator. He taught for a long time at the Kunstgewerbemuseum (Museum of Decorative Arts) in Berlin. He is the most famous painter of Germany's colonies. Hellgrewe was born in Hammerstein in the Province of Prussia. He attended the ''Königstädtische'' Realschule and later the ''Andreas'' Realschule in Berlin before studying under Eugen Bracht and Christian Wilberg at the Berliner Kunstakademie (Berlin Art Academy). He was drawn to landscape painting, and became known as the "painter of Brandenburg's lakes and sunsets" (''Maler märkischer Seen und Sonnenuntergänge''). In 1885–86 Hellgrewe travelled to East Africa, where he made numerous paintings. He later illustrated the books of the African explorers Carl Peters and Hermann von Wissmann, and produced dioramas of life in Germany's tropical colonies for use in schools. In 1888 at Berlin he published many of his works as a book, ''Aus De ...
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